Cyrus West Field

Cyrus West Field (November 30, 1819 – July 11/12, 1892) was an American businessman and financier who led the Atlantic Telegraph Company , the company that successfully laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. The cable broke soon afterward. In 1866, Field laid a new, more durable cable which provided almost instant communication across the Atlantic. In December 1884, the Canadian Pacific Railway named the community of Field, British Columbia, Canada in his honour.

Related topics

• Transatlantic telegraph cable

External links

• Cyrus Field Photographs, Portraits and Medals
• atlantic-cable.com, a comprehensive history of Atlantic telegraph cables
• PBS, American Experience: The Great Transatlantic Cable